White Stone

Numbered, weighed, and found
 wanting...
 A white stone and a new na-
 me, at peace with the lord and
 freed from blame, all debts re-
 mitted, thy sould washed
 clean, O glorious splen-
 dours of the rebirth.
 ...But that stone is a lump of
 coal, for thou hadst a whore's
 forehead, thou refusedst to be
 ashamed.
 A white stone and a new
 name, restoring the years
 that the locust have eaten, again
 clean enough to speak his name,
 oh happy vantage of a kneeling knee
 ...But that name is a ghost
 unseen, for thou hadst a whore's
 forehead, thou refusedst to be
 ashamed. Mene, Mene, Tekel,
 Upharsin... thou refusedst
 to be ashamed.
 Numbered, weighed, and found
 wanting...
 A white stone and a new na-
 me, thy lamp removed from the
 altar of shame, but that name
 is a ghost unseen, for thou
 hadst a whore's forehead, thou
 refusedst to be ashamed.